Care

Xu Ruyi was about to say something when Ding Xueyang tugged at her hand again.

"Let's try another hospital."

After an unbearable silence, Xu Ruyi let out a breath as though waking from another dream. "All right, all right... Let's try another one."

She went to a corner of the room and hoisted the luggage she had packed onto her back again, but soon put all the bags down.

"Do we need to handle the discharge paperwork first...?"

"I'll help you," a nurse said. "Give me the medical records and health cards."

Twenty minutes later, Xu Ruyi and Ding Xueyang took the elevator downstairs.

Xu Ruyi could not shake the feeling that none of this was real. She had thought they had already crossed the hardest hurdle last night. Who could have known this was only the beginning? Listening to Shi Pingchuan make a scene in the hallway outside the doctors' duty room just now, she had felt as if she were back in her old house in Songxueyuan, as though nothing had changed.

"Mom." Ding Xueyang called again. "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking about which hospital to go to next."

"Let's go to the cafeteria first," Ding Xueyang said. "You haven't eaten anything since yesterday afternoon, have you?"

Xu Ruyi frowned. "...I don't really feel hungry."

When they reached the lobby, they found a place to sort through the receipts and test reports from the past two days. They were only halfway through when a young doctor who had not said a word in the office earlier hurried down after them. "Good thing you're still here. I was worried you'd already called a taxi and left."

The two looked at her in confusion.

"Which hospital are you planning to go to next?"

"We haven't decided," Ding